Is it still profitable to mine LTC? Was mining a few days ago but for some reason my khashs dropped significantly, is this from a jump in difficulty or am I just doing something wrong? Went from 300 khash to 30..

Also started mining Litecoin recently, with the goal of conversion to Bitcoin. Decided to keep 1/2 the LTC I mine - gambling on it enjoying a similar percentage gain to Bitcoin. I had a hunch about PPCoin, so doing a little mining in that too. I would like to recommend the WeMineLTC and D7 pools for LTC and PPC respectively, I found the folks in chat there to be helpful and n00b-friendly.

I get a mediocre hashrate of 250 - 300 KH/s from my 5850. I may buy a dedicated rig in future (depending how the LTC difficulty behaves in the next few months) but right now I'm trying to recruit gamers / students to mine for me.

2nd down! I've been peeking around the forum for around one year already but just had to make a thread now. So should I post all my first posts here? This sounds kind of ridiculous, but if that is what it takes...